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This game has an 8.4/10 with 26,880 votes, which leads me to conclude that the majority of voters are children who do not have a full understanding of physics yet. This brings up the question of how many children will grow up with an inherently flawed understanding of weight distribution and gravity because of this game.

Then again, I suppose it's underwater, and since the tires are filled with air the constant switching of buoyancy between the top-heavy boat and the constantly-trying-to-rise tires could lead to such strange acrobatics

Maybe this game is just a teaching tool, a way of explaining how Spongebob's own difficulty driving could occur, and all the ideas of physics he has to get used to just to drive an underwater boat. Perhaps this game is actually preparing the children for their own driving lessons years later, and for all the complex tire-turning and speed control they need to get used to.

Indeed, this game is an ingenious tool created to compensate for games like Mario kart, which only teach children to hold down A and pass by everyone, instead of learning to slow down and take into account all the little tweaks that need to be made in order to stay safe and not end up in Davy Jones's locker.

Or perhaps it's a broader allegory, an allusion to the greater difficulties of adult life that accompany new responsibilities, like getting a car. Although life may seem straight-forward, the only only true way to succeed is through minute compensation to keep a balanced lifestyle and budget.

Maybe it's a metaphor for America's political failings. Its hedonistic preachings and inconsistent politicians have left a ravaged ship in unnavigable waters, unable to balance its left and right. Indeed, even as it tries to progress forward, it finds that each rocky bump punishes this progress with bigger disaster that it only barely survives, and eventually it will end upside-down in a watery explosion.

Guys, I can't take it anymore. Every time I try, I only end up failing. It's a zero-sum game with myself - no matter how I try to compensate left or right, my gains in speed always return later in my losses in life, and I always end up with a big, fat zero. It's simply not fair, the system is set up to make me fail.

M-my god, it all makes sense now. I was put into the system with no other choice. Or, at least, what I thought was no other choice. But there really is one other option - to end it all. No continues, no extra lives, just game over, and finally an end to misery. No more will I have to see Spongebob's flailing body. No more will I have to gaze in a mix of shame and disappointment as Mrs. Puff's body randomly inflates, covering my screen with a frustratingly cartoonish boing noise. It's time to end this once and for all.